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(VAA), being in the same
unit as the other convicts,
was sleeping in a separate
bedroom. Despite the fact
that, according to Art. 126
PECs of the RK - Members
of voluntary organizations
of convicts do not enjoy
additional privileges and
cannot have powers. There is
also a separate detachment
where all the “offended” of
the institution are collected.
33 people in total. They do not
have the right to eat together,
be around one another in
their spare time or watch TV
together.
The group of NPMs in the
Karaganda region interviewed
convicts detained in the
DISO who complained about
the
Voluntary
Assistant
Administration (VAA), the
red tape in the criminal case
against the employees of
the colony A., P., A., who
(according to the convict)
were beaten in September
2015.
In particular, the convict B.
pointed to an unacceptable
situation in the institution,
where person E. has a
“private” cabinet for the
CONSOLIDATED REPORT
showdown with the “guilty.”
E. is a senior staff of VAA. B.
also claims that he was beaten
twice by the VAA and there
are witnesses of the accident.
The shameful rudiment
of the colony detachment
system is the existence of the
outcast prison subculture. As
a rule, they live on general
grounds in detachments.
They eat in the common
dining room, but the tables
stand separately.
Despite the fact that they
perform the dirtiest, most
difficult work such as cleaning
the cesspools, sewers, toilets
- the work of the convicts is
not paid in full. The existence
of
such
discrimination
enables the administration of
the institution to blackmail
and humiliate the dignity
of the prisoners. It is
undoubtedly an instrument
of torture. Unfortunately, the
laws of the criminal world
have been adopted by the
Kazakh penitentiary services,
which use them to control
convicts by blackmailing
them with threats of transfer
to the status of “offended”.
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